linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/include, branch v3.14.52

KVM: x86: make vapics_in_nmi_mode atomic

2015-07-10T17:37:59+00:00

commit 42720138b06301cc8a7ee8a495a6d021c4b6a9bc upstream.

Writes were a bit racy, but hard to turn into a bug at the same time.
(Particularly because modern Linux doesn't use this feature anymore.)

Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář 
[Actually the next patch makes it much, much easier to trigger the race
 so I'm including this one for stable@ as well. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/asm/irq: Stop relying on magic JMP behavior for early_idt_handlers

2015-06-23T00:01:21+00:00

commit 425be5679fd292a3c36cb1fe423086708a99f11a upstream.

The early_idt_handlers asm code generates an array of entry
points spaced nine bytes apart.  It's not really clear from that
code or from the places that reference it what's going on, and
the code only works in the first place because GAS never
generates two-byte JMP instructions when jumping to global
labels.

Clean up the code to generate the correct array stride (member size)
explicitly. This should be considerably more robust against
screw-ups, as GAS will warn if a .fill directive has a negative
count.  Using '. =' to advance would have been even more robust
(it would generate an actual error if it tried to move
backwards), but it would pad with nulls, confusing anyone who
tries to disassemble the code.  The new scheme should be much
clearer to future readers.

While we're at it, improve the comments and rename the array and
common code.

Binutils may start relaxing jumps to non-weak labels.  If so,
this change will fix our build, and we may need to backport this
change.

Before, on x86_64:

  0000000000000000 :
     0:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     2:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     4:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   9 
                          5: R_X86_64_PC32        early_idt_handler-0x4
  ...
    48:   66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax
    4a:   6a 08                   pushq  $0x8
    4c:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   51 
                          4d: R_X86_64_PC32       early_idt_handler-0x4
  ...
   117:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
   119:   6a 1f                   pushq  $0x1f
   11b:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   120 
                          11c: R_X86_64_PC32      early_idt_handler-0x4

After:

  0000000000000000 :
     0:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     2:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     4:   e9 14 01 00 00          jmpq   11d 
  ...
    48:   6a 08                   pushq  $0x8
    4a:   e9 d1 00 00 00          jmpq   120 
    4f:   cc                      int3
    50:   cc                      int3
  ...
   117:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
   119:   6a 1f                   pushq  $0x1f
   11b:   eb 03                   jmp    120 
   11d:   cc                      int3
   11e:   cc                      int3
   11f:   cc                      int3

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Binutils 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H.J. Lu 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac027962af343b0c599cbfcf50b945ad2ef3d7a8.1432336324.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/idle/x86: Restore mwait_idle() to fix boot hangs, to improve power savings and to improve performance

2015-05-06T19:59:08+00:00

commit b253149b843f89cd300cbdbea27ce1f847506f99 upstream.

In Linux-3.9 we removed the mwait_idle() loop:

  69fb3676df33 ("x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param")

The reasoning was that modern machines should be sufficiently
happy during the boot process using the default_idle() HALT
loop, until cpuidle loads and either acpi_idle or intel_idle
invoke the newer MWAIT-with-hints idle loop.

But two machines reported problems:

 1. Certain Core2-era machines support MWAIT-C1 and HALT only.
    MWAIT-C1 is preferred for optimal power and performance.
    But if they support just C1, cpuidle never loads and
    so they use the boot-time default idle loop forever.

 2. Some laptops will boot-hang if HALT is used,
    but will boot successfully if MWAIT is used.
    This appears to be a hidden assumption in BIOS SMI,
    that is presumably valid on the proprietary OS
    where the BIOS was validated.

       https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60770

So here we effectively revert the patch above, restoring
the mwait_idle() loop.  However, we don't bother restoring
the idle=mwait cmdline parameter, since it appears to add
no value.

Maintainer notes:

  For 3.9, simply revert 69fb3676df
  for 3.10, patch -F3 applies, fuzz needed due to __cpuinit use in
  context For 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, this patch applies cleanly

Tested-by: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown 
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith 
Cc:  # 3.9+
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Ian Malone 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/345254a551eb5a6a866e048d7ab570fd2193aca4.1389763084.git.len.brown@intel.com
[ Ported to recent kernels. ]
[ Mike: 3.10 backport ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/fpu: Drop_fpu() should not assume that tsk equals current

2015-03-26T14:06:58+00:00

commit f4c3686386393c120710dd34df2a74183ab805fd upstream.

drop_fpu() does clear_used_math() and usually this is correct
because tsk == current.

However switch_fpu_finish()->restore_fpu_checking() is called before
__switch_to() updates the "current_task" variable. If it fails,
we will wrongly clear the PF_USED_MATH flag of the previous task.

So use clear_stopped_child_used_math() instead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Pekka Riikonen 
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas 
Cc: Suresh Siddha 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150309171041.GB11388@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, tls: Interpret an all-zero struct user_desc as "no segment"

2015-01-30T01:40:49+00:00

commit 3669ef9fa7d35f573ec9c0e0341b29251c2734a7 upstream.

The Witcher 2 did something like this to allocate a TLS segment index:

        struct user_desc u_info;
        bzero(&u_info, sizeof(u_info));
        u_info.entry_number = (uint32_t)-1;

        syscall(SYS_set_thread_area, &u_info);

Strictly speaking, this code was never correct.  It should have set
read_exec_only and seg_not_present to 1 to indicate that it wanted
to find a free slot without putting anything there, or it should
have put something sensible in the TLS slot if it wanted to allocate
a TLS entry for real.  The actual effect of this code was to
allocate a bogus segment that could be used to exploit espfix.

The set_thread_area hardening patches changed the behavior, causing
set_thread_area to return -EINVAL and crashing the game.

This changes set_thread_area to interpret this as a request to find
a free slot and to leave it empty, which isn't *quite* what the game
expects but should be close enough to keep it working.  In
particular, using the code above to allocate two segments will
allocate the same segment both times.

According to FrostbittenKing on Github, this fixes The Witcher 2.

If this somehow still causes problems, we could instead allocate
a limit==0 32-bit data segment, but that seems rather ugly to me.

Fixes: 41bdc78544b8 x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0cb251abe1ff0958b8e468a9a9a905b80ae3a746.1421954363.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, tls, ldt: Stop checking lm in LDT_empty

2015-01-30T01:40:49+00:00

commit e30ab185c490e9a9381385529e0fd32f0a399495 upstream.

32-bit programs don't have an lm bit in their ABI, so they can't
reliably cause LDT_empty to return true without resorting to memset.
They shouldn't need to do this.

This should fix a longstanding, if minor, issue in all 64-bit kernels
as well as a potential regression in the TLS hardening code.

Fixes: 41bdc78544b8 x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72a059de55e86ad5e2935c80aa91880ddf19d07c.1421954363.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, vdso: Use asm volatile in __getcpu

2015-01-16T14:59:31+00:00

commit 1ddf0b1b11aa8a90cef6706e935fc31c75c406ba upstream.

In Linux 3.18 and below, GCC hoists the lsl instructions in the
pvclock code all the way to the beginning of __vdso_clock_gettime,
slowing the non-paravirt case significantly.  For unknown reasons,
presumably related to the removal of a branch, the performance issue
is gone as of

e76b027e6408 x86,vdso: Use LSL unconditionally for vgetcpu

but I don't trust GCC enough to expect the problem to stay fixed.

There should be no correctness issue, because the __getcpu calls in
__vdso_vlock_gettime were never necessary in the first place.

Note to stable maintainers: In 3.18 and below, depending on
configuration, gcc 4.9.2 generates code like this:

     9c3:       44 0f 03 e8             lsl    %ax,%r13d
     9c7:       45 89 eb                mov    %r13d,%r11d
     9ca:       0f 03 d8                lsl    %ax,%ebx

This patch won't apply as is to any released kernel, but I'll send a
trivial backported version if needed.

[
 Backported by Andy Lutomirski.  Should apply to all affected
 versions.  This fixes a functionality bug as well as a performance
 bug: buggy kernels can infinite loop in __vdso_clock_gettime on
 affected compilers.  See, for exammple:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178975
]

Fixes: 51c19b4f5927 x86: vdso: pvclock gettime support
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/tls: Don't validate lm in set_thread_area() after all

2015-01-08T18:00:49+00:00

commit 3fb2f4237bb452eb4e98f6a5dbd5a445b4fed9d0 upstream.

It turns out that there's a lurking ABI issue.  GCC, when
compiling this in a 32-bit program:

struct user_desc desc = {
	.entry_number    = idx,
	.base_addr       = base,
	.limit           = 0xfffff,
	.seg_32bit       = 1,
	.contents        = 0, /* Data, grow-up */
	.read_exec_only  = 0,
	.limit_in_pages  = 1,
	.seg_not_present = 0,
	.useable         = 0,
};

will leave .lm uninitialized.  This means that anything in the
kernel that reads user_desc.lm for 32-bit tasks is unreliable.

Revert the .lm check in set_thread_area().  The value never did
anything in the first place.

Fixes: 0e58af4e1d21 ("x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7875b60e28c512f6a6fc0baf5714d58e7eaadbb.1418856405.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only

2014-12-06T23:55:40+00:00

commit c1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343 upstream.

On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
In that case, KVM will fail to patch VMCALL instructions to VMMCALL
as required on AMD processors.

The failure mode is currently a divide-by-zero exception, which obviously
is a KVM bug that has to be fixed.  However, picking the right instruction
between VMCALL and VMMCALL will be faster and will help if you cannot upgrade
the hypervisor.

Reported-by: Chris Webb 
Tested-by: Chris Webb 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

uprobes, x86: Fix _TIF_UPROBE vs _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME

2014-12-06T23:55:33+00:00

commit 82975bc6a6df743b9a01810fb32cb65d0ec5d60b upstream.

x86 call do_notify_resume on paranoid returns if TIF_UPROBE is set but
not on non-paranoid returns.  I suspect that this is a mistake and that
the code only works because int3 is paranoid.

Setting _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in the uprobe code was probably a workaround
for the x86 bug.  With that bug fixed, we can remove _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
from the uprobes code.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman